Mama has hatched babies!!!

[Stormiek]

Egg. No 3

Egg no. 4

 

[Stormiek]

Egg no. 5

 

[Stormiek]

Egg no. 6

 

[Stormiek]

Egg no. 7

 

[Stormiek]

Egg no. 8

 

[Stormiek]

Egg no. 9

 

[Stormiek]

Egg no. 10 i assume this one has barely started developing?? Im still learning lol

 

[Stormiek]

Also you were right i think shes much more comfortable now!!!!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Should i move them immidiatly after she decides shes done sitting or should i wait a few days after everybody is hatched? And im not quite sure on the candling this is my very first time doing it it was awesome!!!! i will send pictures and maybe you will be able to decipher? And youre not kidding there this is literally amazing i am SO IN LOVE. i just wish i have been more responsible and done a bit more research and maybe the other one would have made it!

Nothing like just jumping in, it's how we learn! Things happen, sometimes a chick can hatch and just fail to thrive right on the spot. It's not your fault.
It's sad, but there's so much to learn and experience, none of us can know it all!

Egg no.2 is VERY STINKY. It smells like a dead animal but i wasnt sure if that was because of the first baby who didnt make it... i didnt want to wash it in case that would mess up the incubation process but i dont see any light spot inside of it either?

Oh get rid of it. Put it in a ziplock and carefully dispose of it, you don't want it to explode. A stinky egg is rotten

Egg. No 3

I think I see veins, but wouldn't be able to say how far along it is.

Eggs 4, 5, 6 all look ok from what I can see.
Eggs 7, 8, 9 hard to tell, but I would still incubate those.
Egg 10 looks like it may be a dud, but you can give it a few days to see what happens with it too.

I'm certainly not the best at candling or incubating, I normally let a hen do her thing and get chicks that way
I'll tag in @CluckNDoodle to see if she has better input.

Is is fun to see the chick moving about in the egg though.

You may find this helpful, it's what I seem to look at if I incubate eggs. She does take you all the way through day 21 or so, so look through it and see what you think.
https://www.raising-happy-chickens.com/hatching-chicken-eggs.html

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Egg Candling! Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices. This is an easy to follow guide that I put together last year. Maybe this will be helpful to you?

It can be very hard to tell from images especially as the chicks get closer to hatch because it's dark where they're filling the egg, so I don't like making that call but if one is stinky then you should definitely discard it. When all else fails and I'm just not sure, the sniff test is my rule and if they don't pass, they go bye bye.